文档介绍：Springer Monographs in Mathematics
Chjan Lim Joseph Nebus
Vorticity, Statistical
Mechanics, and
Monte Carlo Simulation
Chjan Lim Joseph Nebus
Department of Mathematical Sciences Department of Mathematics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute National University of Singapore
Troy, NY 12180-3590 Singapore
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Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 76-01, 76B47, 82-01, 82B26, 82B80
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006930876
ISBN-10: 0-387-35075-6
ISBN-13: 978-0387-35075-2
Printed on acid-free paper.
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Preface
This book is meant for an audience of advanced undergraduates and graduate
students taking courses on the statistical mechanics approach to turbulent
flows and on stochastic simulations. It is also suitable for the self-study of
professionals involved in the research and modelling of large scale stochastic
fluid flows with a substantial ponent.
Several related ideas motivate the approach in this book, namely, the
application of equilibrium statistical mechanics to two-dimensional and -
dimensional fluid flows in the spirit of Onsager [337], and Kraichnan [227],